Saginaw Bay Watershed

W E T N E T is a student-gathered water quality database for use by classrooms, industry, government agencies, private groups, or virtually anybody who is concerned about water quality in the Saginaw Bay Watershed and beyond.

Data from 9 different water quality tests will be gathered during hands-on outdoor lab sessions by secondary and elementary students. The data gathered in these tests will be used to construct Interactive Computer Maps of the Saginaw Basin which will be available on the
internet via the World Wide Web.

Each of the participating schools' water sampling sites will be represented as a point on the computer map. Clicking on a particular school's point will bring up the water quality data gathered by that school!

The student or other user will have fingertip access to data about pH, nitrates, dissolved oxygen, total solids, temperature, phosphates, turbidity, biochemical oxygen demand and fecal coliform gathered at more than 150 sites by more than 60 schools within the watershed.

To become part of the Wetnet Project, your group can contact the project coordinator, Tim Wheatley at:
The Wetnet Project
Goodrich Middle/High Schools
8029 S. Gale Road
Goodrich, Michigan 48438
phone: (810) 636 2253 fax: (810) 636 2550
e-mail: twheatle@genesee.freenet.org